Electromagnetic wave propagation in anisotropic media has been widely studied over the last decades since there are several applications where anisotropy plays an important role. This paper presents a procedure to carry out three-dimensional (3D) finite element method (FEM) full-wave simulations of the electromagnetic field in inhomogeneous magnetized plasma of an electron cyclotron resonance ion source (ECRIS). We used COMSOL Multiphysics software and MATLAB to model a cold anisotropic magnetized plasma, described by full-3D non-uniform dielectric tensor, enclosed by the metallic cylindrical cavity where the plasma is formed. A proper mesh generation, exploiting FEM-based COMSOL versatility, allowed us to optimally model ECRIS cavity and microwave waveguide launching structure, with a good computational efficiency and high resolution of the solution especially around the resonance regions. Numerical simulations have been performed in the frequency domain: in the resonance regions especially, the material properties exhibit a spatial variation that leads to a large sparse ill-conditioned matrix which is solved by MUltifrontal Massively Parallel Solver (MUMPS) direct method. We implement a method to perform full-wave simulations considering a cold plasma model for the constitutive relations; the obtained results show that the presence of ECR layer, along with the cavity walls, strongly influences the shape and strength of the electromagnetic field distribution, featuring a strong non-uniformity of the main electromagnetic parameters
Full-wave FEM simulations of electromagnetic waves in strongly magnetized non-homogeneous plasma / G., Torrisi; D., Mascali; G., Sorbelloa; L., Neri; L., Celona; G., Castro; Isernia, Tommaso; S., Gammino. - In: JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS. - ISSN 0920-5071. - 28:9(2014), pp. 1085-1099. [10.1080/09205071.2014.905245]
Full-wave FEM simulations of electromagnetic waves in strongly magnetized non-homogeneous plasma
ISERNIA, Tommaso;
2014-01-01
Abstract
Electromagnetic wave propagation in anisotropic media has been widely studied over the last decades since there are several applications where anisotropy plays an important role. This paper presents a procedure to carry out three-dimensional (3D) finite element method (FEM) full-wave simulations of the electromagnetic field in inhomogeneous magnetized plasma of an electron cyclotron resonance ion source (ECRIS). We used COMSOL Multiphysics software and MATLAB to model a cold anisotropic magnetized plasma, described by full-3D non-uniform dielectric tensor, enclosed by the metallic cylindrical cavity where the plasma is formed. A proper mesh generation, exploiting FEM-based COMSOL versatility, allowed us to optimally model ECRIS cavity and microwave waveguide launching structure, with a good computational efficiency and high resolution of the solution especially around the resonance regions. Numerical simulations have been performed in the frequency domain: in the resonance regions especially, the material properties exhibit a spatial variation that leads to a large sparse ill-conditioned matrix which is solved by MUltifrontal Massively Parallel Solver (MUMPS) direct method. We implement a method to perform full-wave simulations considering a cold plasma model for the constitutive relations; the obtained results show that the presence of ECR layer, along with the cavity walls, strongly influences the shape and strength of the electromagnetic field distribution, featuring a strong non-uniformity of the main electromagnetic parametersI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.